Temporary holder for safety-razor blades.



IATENTED APR-.118

I)n A. MAGBETH- TEMPORARY HOLDER FOR SAFETY RAZOR BLADES.

APPLICATION FILED JAN-17. 1906.

WITNESSES.

- construct t e the jaws of 13, which exten tan, in the county and and a clamp C.

DARE A. YMACBETH-NOF NEW YORK, N. Y.

TEMPORARY HOLDER FOR SAFETYrRAZOER BLADES.

Specification of Letters Patent.

17,1906. Serial No. 296,496.

iratented April 1c, 1907.

{h application filed January To all, whom it mrtyjconcern:

Be it known'that I,-DARE A. MAoBETH, a citizen of the United States, and a resident of the city of New York, borough of Manhat- State of New York, have invented a new and Improved Temporary. Holder for Safety Razor Blades, of which the following is 'a full, clear, and exact description.

. The purpose of the invention is to provide a device for temporarily holding the blades of safetyaazors for the purpose of honing or stropping them, which device is especially ada ted for use in connection with razorbla es of the Gillette type. I

Another ur ose of the invention is to so evice that the holder pro er will be practically in one piece, the only 0t er factor employed being a clamp mounted upon the. jaw-section of the holder, and, further, to so construct the jaw-section of a holder that the razor-blade can be quickly and conveniently introduced betwen the jaws in such manner that the blade will remain in set position while the clamp is being applied,

The invention consists in the novel construction and combination of the several parts, as will be hereinafter fully set forth, and pointed out in the claim.

Reference is to be had to the accompanying drawings, forming a part of this specification, in which similar characters of reference indicate corresponding parts in all the figures.

Figure 1 is a perspective view of the im-' roved'holder, illustrating a blade held there- 1nv Fig. 2 is a bottom plan view of th die and a horizontal section through thi jaws of the device, a blade in position betwe -n the said jaws, and a clamp for-holding th' jaws in looking engagement with the blade, the section being taken practically on the 11116 2 2 of Fig. 3. Fig. 3 is a transverse section through the device, the clamp, and the blade, the section being taken practically on the line '3 3. of Fig. 2; and Fig. 4 is a longitu- -dinal section through the jaw-section of the device, showing an inner face view of the jaw which is utilized to retain the blade in position. .The device primarily consists of a body A The body A is made of one iece of spring sheet metal and consists of a handle-section 10, continuous with a back posing parallel jaws 12 and section 11, and o down from the under porhan- ' 1 tion of the back section 11 as is best shownin Figs. 1 and 3. The handle member 10 of the said body is preferably circular in general contour, and the back member 11 is segmental. Thejaws 12 and. 13 are continuations of the lower edges of the said back member of the body. A cut or kerf '14 is produced longitudinall at the central portion of the back mem or 11 and is carried into the outer end portion of the handle member 10, as is shown best in Fig. 4. y This cut or kerf 14 is in alinementwith the center of the space between the jaws 12 and 13f Furthermore, the handle member 10 is provided in its under face with a. longitudinal cut 14 which extends from the outer end of the handle to the inner or rear ends of the jaws 12 and 13. Under this construction a ver simple and practical holder is obtained an 'one whereinthe jaws have the greatest possible amount of elasticity and wherein also the jaws are prone to preserve their parallelism.

The blade B, which is to be sharpened, is a double-edged blade, as is best shown in Fig, 3, arid is provided with a series of apertures 15 about centrallybetween its cutting edges,

as is also shown. in Fig. 3, in which one of said is provided with a series of indentations in its outer face, producing a series of projections or bosses 16 upon the inner face of said jaw, as is best shown in Figs. 3 and 4, and these bosses 16 are of such shape and are so arranged that when the razor-blade B is introduced between the jaws 12 and 13 the said bosses will snugly fit into the openings or apertures 15 in the blade, as isshown particularly in Fig. 3, tween the jaws and preventing the inner edge of the blade from engaging with the back member 11 of the body A; but even should there be danger of such engagement the cut 14 in said back. memberwould permitthe outward passage of the inner cutting edge of the blade tosome, extent.

7 the blade has been placed between thus holding the blade be- .iherefore the clamp C is made of spring silient material, said body consisting of a 20 ebeet metalhent upon itself to form a seghandlesubstantially circular in cross-section, mentai back member 17 and wings 18, which arallel jaws extending from the edges of the g jextend from the Lower parallel edges of the ody at. one end thereof, said body being. back member, the said Wings being ofsuch 1 slotted in alinement with the opening bedepth that when the clam is in position the j tween the jaws, one of said jaws having 25 said wings will practice ly extend to the J spaced bosses on the inner face thereof, and a tower edges oi the jaws 12 and 13, as 1s j c amp consistingfof a body adapted to slide shown in Figs. 1 and 3. The back member I over the body 0 the holder, and wings ex- 0 i? when the clamp is in position fits snugly 5 tending from the body for engagement with upon the back member 11 of the body. In 1 the outer faces of said jaws. 3o fact, when the clamp C is placed upon the In testimony whereof I have signed my body of the holder the said clamp is placed 5 name to this specification in the presence of and held under tension. two subscribing witnesses.

Having thus described my invention, 3 1 claim as new-and desire to secure by Let- 5 DARE ters Patent Witnesses:

A holder for safety-razor blades, compris- ALFRED K. GAVEY, ing a body constructed of a single piece of re- 1 (.HAs. F. VVERNFIR. 

